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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 293, 5 December 1908, Page 4

Canada has now 23,0110 miles of railway. .v-*'#* 'l'll,, ordinary person's lun<'s contain 71i.M00.0011 air rails. .Tlic. I'rotcstants j.],,, world now number ISII.OOU.UIKI. A whale is capable of .swimmimr twelve miles an hour. \earlv .iO.OOO horses were used for food in I'jiris la.-i vi-ar. \\ liirlwinds in Arabia win exeavalp |"ts in the sand 2:>llft. deep. Monaco possesses (he smallest annv known ■ a bo.lv of Ijn men. (If all white nations, the Americans arc tile bi-vst fniil-eaters. At tile present lime there are 21.000 labourers at work on the ('anil. All lioneh India annually produces over 2.0110,000 tons of sn»iiv-cane. it importcil last year over C 0.000.0110 worth „f sll "a r. Harps, with siriiijr, intact. have I a loun.l in Kj-yptian tombs, an,l have .itiw'n lortli distinct sounds affcr a lapse of .-1.01111 yea rs or so. As tile result lIT excess i>|' births ovr deaths, (icrniaiiv's popnlalion increases at the rali' of „l>ou(. 11011.1100 a year. Some ol tile ( hinese newspapers are printed in a roll, so that, when a portion lias been read, it liiav lie torn oIT and thrown awsiv. In (In l T uitcd St;i(c< tlit'i'c ;u't' Uiirt.y lowtw ur villus mnnrd Merlin, fwentyono jjnmod TTsnnlmr«r, {.wcnty-iliror \ named Palis, und thirteen nuniod Log-1 don,